Deep Lab

This book was created in five days by a dozen women. Written in a "book sprint", it represents the capstone to Deep Lab, a residency hosted by the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in collaboration with CMU’s CyLab Usable Privacy and Security Laboratory, with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation. The Deep Lab was a congress of cyberfeminist researchers, organized by Addie Wagenknecht to examine how the themes of privacy, security, surveillance, anonymity, and large-scale data aggregation are problematized in the arts, culture and society. During the second week of December 2014, the Deep Lab participants—a group of internationally acclaimed new-media artists, information designers, data scientists, software engineers, hackers, writers, journalists and theoreticians—gathered at the STUDIO to engage in critical assessments of contemporary digital culture. The outcomes of this effort include the visualizations, software, reflections and manifestos compiled here.